| Additional Information |
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| Publication | [April] 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | Cover has "Illustrated by Walt Kelly" in small typeset letters at bottom. |
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| Cover | The Cat and the Fiddle |
| Synopsis | Illustrating the nursery rhyme "Hi Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle." |
| Featuring | Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: The Cat; The Dish; The Spoon |
| Notes | Cover has "Illustrated by Walt Kelly" in small typeset letters at bottom. |
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| Foreword/Afterword | Hello (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Introduction to the comic. |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | The Mother Goose Birthday Party (19 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mother Goose has a birthday party and invites a large number of nursery rhyme characters. |
| Credits | Script: Charles H. Herman (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Mother Goose; Three Little Pigs; Three Blind Mice; Tom Thumb; Ugly Duckling; Goldilocks; The Owl and the Pussycat; Old King Cole; Simple Simon; the Pieman; Yankee Doodle; Little Miss Muffet; Mistress Mary; Little Jack Horner; Georgie Porgie; Humpty Dumpty; Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; Big Bad Wolf; Jack Spratt; Little Tommy Tucker; The Spider and the Fly; Old Mother Hubbard; Little Boy Blue; the Gingerbread Boy; the Fairy Queen |
| Notes | Text and illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man gets a dog, which bites him. But it's the dog that dies, not the man. |
| Credits | Script: Oliver Goldsmith [as O. Goldsmith] (credited) |
| Notes | The illustrations intentionally contradict the written lines, which are from an 18th century poem. |
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| Comic Story | Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The nursery rhyme "Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid." |
| Notes | Text and illustrations. Traditional lyrics from an unknown poet. |
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| Text Story | Mary Had a Little Lamb (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The "Mary Had a Little Lamb" nursery rhyme. |
| Credits | Script: Sarah Hale |
| Content | Characters: Mary |
| Notes | Text and illustrations. Sheet music for the first three lines included. First four lines of the original eight line poem from 1830 included. |
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| Text Story | Three Blind Mice (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice." |
| Content | Characters: Three Blind Mice |
| Notes | Text and illustrations. Sheet music for the entire song is included. Traditional lyrics from an unknown poet. |
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| Comic Story | The House That Jack Built (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The nursery rhyme "The House that Jack Built." |
| Notes | Text and illustrations. Traditional lyrics from an unknown poet. |
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| Comic Story | Such a-do About a Shoe (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe looks for more suitable living quarters. |
| Content | Characters: Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe |
| Notes | Text and illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | Three Little Kittens (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The nursery rhyme "Three Little Kittens," with an additional page of text at the end. |
| Content | Characters: Three Little Kittens |
| Notes | Text and illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | Bo-Peep's Dream (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Little Bo-Peep has a dream in which she has a magic wand. |
| Credits | Script: Charles H. Herman (credited) |
| Content | Characters: Little Bo-Peep |
| Notes | Text and illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | The End of a Tail (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A little mouse gets scrubbed from his head to the tip of his tail. |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Text and illustrations. |
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| Illustration | Mother Goose Characters (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A montage of many different characters from Mother Goose rhymes. |
| Content | Characters: Mother Goose |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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